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| | THELORDOFTHERINGS.com » TOLKIEN BOOKSTORE » "THE SILMARILLION" |
 | | The title Silmarillion is shortened from Quenta Silamarillion, 'The History of the Silmarils', the three great jewels created by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves, in which he imprisoned the light of the Two Trees that illuminated Valinor, the land of the gods. | | | The tales of "The Silmarillion" were the underlying inspiration and source of Tolkien's imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life, but never brought it to a final form. | | | "The Silmarillion" is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his people against the gods, their exile in Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroism of Elves and Men, against the great Enemy. |
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| | -=[RedBookofWestmarch]=- The Silmarillion: summary and backgrounds |
| | Although the Silmarillion was published after the author's death, it considers the oldest matter written on the world of Middle Earth. | | | When he was stationed in France, the ordering of his imagination developed into the Book of Lost Tales, in which most of the major stories of the Silmarillion appear in their first form: tales of the Elves and the "Gnomes", (i. | | | The Quenta Silmarillion is mainly concerned with the Noldor, who learned most from Aulë. |
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| | eBay - Book: El Silmarillion (ISBN: 0618135049) |
| | THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy. | | | Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other works. | | | A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work that he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him. |
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| | J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion |
| | The Silmarillion includes several other works besides the main story: Ainulindale, the myth of Creation; Valaquenta, on the nature and power of the gods; Allakabeth, recounting the downfall of Numenor; and "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age," the link to The Lord of the Rings. | | | A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion precedes The Hobbit in the ancient drama that builds up to The Lord of the Rings. | | | Edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, the book finally appeared four years after the author's death, in 1977. |
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http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/lordoftheringstrilogy/silmarillion.shtml
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| | Entmoot - The Silmarillion films??? |
| | \r\nTales of The Silmarillion I: Beren Ironfist and the Fortress of Doom. | | | \r\nTales of The Silmarillion I: Beren Ironfist and the Fortress of Doom." | | | Those are fairly stragihtforward stories I think...although they aren\'t exactly the Quenta Silmarillion, they are included in the published work. |
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http://www.tolkientrail.com/entmoot/showthread.php?p=295742&mode=threaded
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| | The Silmarillion: Sources used by Tolkien to create “A Mythology for England” |
| | Perhaps the greatest tale written in the Silmarillion on the travails of Beren and Luthien, one of the four unions between Man and Elf. | | | As a scholar for medieval literature, Tolkien noted that much, if not all of the early mythology in Anglo-Saxon literature had been lost. | | | Here, there are some similarities in that both are collections of tales that are somewhat tied together, but the Silmarillion is the more so - being more dramatic and carrying greater meaning. |
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mithrandircq/Silmarillion_sources.htm
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: Silmarillion |
| | Quenta Silmarillion, the longest tale, which gives an account of the history of Arda from its beginnings until the end of the First Age. | | | The full title, Quenta Silmarillion, means 'Tale of the Silmarils' | | | actually consists of a corpus of five works, of which the Quenta Silmarillion is the central tale. |
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| | The Silmarillion; a new, expanded illustrated edition - Ted Nasmith |
| | As mentioned previously, the new edition of The Silmarillion, with a much larger number of illustrations, has been published this fall, debuting in the UK in early September, and now available in North America since mid-November. | | | Seen this way, The Silmarillion amounts to a Source Book of many other novel-length tales almost as epic as The Lord of the Rings. | | | Although I would be among the first to acknowledge the lure of The Lord of the Rings to any illustrator, in fact it doesn’t really require illustrations to be enjoyed and absorbed, so vivid are its author’s descriptions, and so intimate is its narrative. |
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http://www.tednasmith.com/2004/12/the_silmarillion_a_new_expan.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Silmarillion: Books |
| | The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. | | | The Silmarillion is not a great read in the way that LOTR or The Hobbit is. It isn't one story told linear fashion from beginning to end. | | | The Silmarillion represents the source of Tolkien's later work and follows the events of the First Age of Middle Earth. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0261102737
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| | Amazon.com: The Silmarillion: Books: J.R.R. Tolkien |
| | Third in the chronology is the Quenta Silmarillion itself - the tale of the Silmarilli. | | | As Tolkien notes, it is important in mythology to have a "fall" (ie, a fall from grace) and The Silmarillion tells us about the fall of the elves and their voluntary (and partial) exile from the Blessed Realm to Middle Earth (for ex., Galadriel). | | | For ten or twelve years I skimmed through "The Silmarillion," "The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," and many of Tolkien's posthumous books (many of which present the stories of "The Silmarillion" in different forms which Tolkien wrote at various times in his life) without reading the books verbatim. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345325818?v=glance
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| | Read the Silmarillion on 43 Things |
| | Silmarillion is a fascinating history of Middle Earth, from before the beginning of time until The Hobbit. | | | These are the story of Beren and Luthien, the story of Feanor and the Rebellion of the Noldor, the Downfall of Numenor, and my personal favorite the Tale of the Children of Hurin. | | | Worth doing only if you REALLY love the Lord of the Rings and have read all the other books. |
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http://www.43things.com/things/view/7385
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| | DVD Talk Forum - anyone else love the Silmarillion? |
| | If you read the silmarillion before reading the LOTR Books, it makes the LOTR trilogy appear a richer and more satisfying read. | | | So I recommend that people read LOTR (and its appendices) first, and then only read The Silmarillion if they're truly interested in the history, because it takes a bit of devotion. |
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http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/printthread.php?t=359010
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| | The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien |
| | At the same time very little about "The Silmarillion" defies (too drastically) the laws of Newtonian physics or at least the physics Tolkien is able to conjure in his imagination. | | | Iluvatar takes pity on the Dwarves and gives them a place in his scheme of the world. | | | He wrote about it in a children's book, The Hobbit. |
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http://www.indepthinfo.com/tolkien/sil.shtml
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| | The Silmarillion, Volume 3:TOLKIEN, J.R.R.SHAW, MARTIN:0553525026:eCampus.com |
| | Tire Lord of tire Rings narrated the great events at the end of the Third Age; but the tales of The Silmarillion are legends deriving from a much deeper past, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils. | | | Set in a time far earlier than Tolkien's master works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, this is the epic history of the elves, and the grand story of the creation of Tolkien's magical world. | | | Never published in the author's lifetime, "The Silmarillion" is an essential compendium for all Tolkien fans. |
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http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0553525026&referrer=yah04
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| | The Silmarillion Ch.#10: Of the Sindar - THE TOLKIEN FORUM |
| | The Silmarillion, Of the SindarBut new tidings were at hand, which none in Middle-earth had foreseen, neither Morgoth in his pits nor Melian in Menegroth; for no news came out of Aman, whether by messenger, or by spirit, or by vision in dream, after the death of the Trees. | | | But those that had courage, and stayed, perceived swiftly that the Great Rider was no shape out of darkness; for the light of Aman was in his face, and all the noblest of the Elves were drawn towards it. | | | For by after-knowledge the wise declare that Melkor, ever watchful, was first aware of the awakening of the Quendi, and sent shadows and evil spirits to spy upon them and waylay them. |
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| | RingQuest - The Silmarillion |
| | This is the story of their rebellion against the Gods and the history of the heroic First age in Middle-earth. | | | Quenta Silmarillion : The Quenta Silmarillion gives you the history of why events occurred as they did and how (in the second and third ages) Sauron came to power as a shadow of the Real "Dark Lord" Melkor/Morgoth. | | | It might be good to read first The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and read The Silmarillion, you will already put some pieces of the puzzle together and if you read again The Lord of the Rings, you will really understand the extend of this story and will be amazed by Tolkien's work. |
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http://www.ringquest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9171
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| | The New York Review of Books: The Hobbit Habit |
| | What is published now as The Silmarillion is what Tolkien referred to, in the foreword to the trilogy, as "the mythology and legends of the Elder Days." He described it there as "work done for my own satisfaction" in which he had little hope that other people would be interested. | | | This rich gallimaufry of narrative is softened here and melodramatized there for the modern taste, and exempt by being a fairy tale from merely rational criticism. | | | Instead, if the thought isn't too solemn, they might try some of the books that Tolkien himself used to construct his Disneyized cycle. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/8321
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| | Finduilas's J.R.R. Tolkien Page - The Silmarillion |
| | One of the most moving tales told in the Silmarillion is that of Beren and Luthien. | | | Then through all the years that followed he traced the Ring; but since that history is elsewhere recounted, even as Elrond himself set it down in his books of lore, it is not here recalled. | | | Of this Maedhros indeed repented, and sought long for them in the woods of Doriath; but his search was unavailing, and of the fate of Elured and Elurin no tale tells. |
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| | Editions of The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and HoME |
| | Second edition of the deluxe oversized Silmarillion, illustrated by Ted Nasmith is sturdy and printed on high quality paper offers several new illustrations in addition to the ones featured in the first edition. | | | The Second American Edition of The Silmarillion became available in 2001 (The British edition on HarperCollins was published in 1999). | | | The main alteration to the book is the inclusion of Tolkien's voluminous letter to Milton Waldman (#131 in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien), the publisher to which he was pitching The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings together as a unified work. |
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| | MJ Forums -> The Silmarillion: Discussion |
| | The Silmarillion, is a story of events prior to all other tales of Middle Earth. | | | There are a lot of tales written, regarding the making of the design of The Silmarillion. | | | How many books would it take, to write this story in first person perspective? |
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| | Salon.com Books Tolkien's cosmological vision |
| | "The Silmarillion," J.R.R. Tolkien's fantastically complex, comprehensive and, yes, uneven mythological narrative was his life's work -- the underlying structural legend of the world into which young Frodo Baggins would later walk, many millennia hence, on his arduous journey to cast the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. | | | It has, in the Tolkienian spirit, valiantly returned. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/02/18/silmarillion
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| | The Silmarillion-Cliffnotes |
| | I encourage you to read this section in the Silmarillion, rather it would be cool if you could read the book multiple times. | | | For those who have not read this story yet, you will have to read it to see how the rest goes. | | | I will be writing synoposis on stories and characters which will also include my opinion. |
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| | The Silmarillion |
| | But of Olorin that tale does not speak; for though he loved the Elves, he walked among them unseen, or in form as one of them, and they did not know whence came the fair visions or the promptings of wisdom that he put into their hearts. | | | In The Lord of the Rings were narrated the great events at the end of the Third Age; but the tales of The Silmarillion are legends deriving from a much deeper past, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils. | | | The Ainulindale and Valaquenta, which are given at the beginning, are indeed closely related with The Silmarillion; but the Akallabeth and Of the Rings of Power, which appear at the end, are (it must to emphasised) wholly separate and independent. |
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| | LOTR Fanclub Links |
| | A Tolkien Dictionary -- taken from the indexes of the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. | | | Silmarillion Geneology of Elves and Men -- with printable PDF pages. | | | A Silmarillion Chronology -- excellent overview with commentary, images, polls, etc. for the Silmarillion. |
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| | About "The Silmarillion" Reading Group. Sign up here. - @forums |
| | Many things that were alluded to in "The Lord of the Rings" are explained in full, and the origins of many characters and creatures from that story are shown. | | | (Those of you who have already read the book, are, of course, VERY welcome.) There are several very nice and relatively inexpenisive paperback and trade paperback versions of "The Silmarillion" on the market; and if you feel like splashing out, there is a very pretty hardcover edition with illustrations by Ted Nasmith. | | | In the mid-1930s, when he was asked to jot down a story he had been telling his children for publication, he decided he would connect this previously unrelated story with his mythology, by placing it in Middle-earth. |
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| | KMC Forums - The Silmarillion RPG |
| | Maybe even tell a freind who is really into RPGs and J.R.R. Tolkiens work. | | | I hope that you will find this interesting. | | | For those of you who might not know what the Silmarillion is; to put it simply, it's a huge prologue to the Lord of the Rings trilogy and to The Hobbit. |
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| | The Silmarillion UK 1999 Hardcover Edition |
| | The Silmarillion tells the story of the rebellion by Feanor?s allies against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-Earth. | | | The cover of this edition of The Silmarillion shows J.R.R. Tolkien?s own painting from July 1928, Halls of Manwe on the Mountains of of the World above Faerie. | | | The painting shows the mountain Taniquetil, raised by the Valar in the east of Valinor as a defence against Melkor, at a time after the Two Trees had been destroyed. |
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| | A Tolkien Dictionary |
| | Publishing interest was not so great in the collected various histories of Elves, but a 'tale' about all these sundry races and their fates in light of the children's tale of The Hobbit was too great a draw for the booksters to resist. | | | Unhappily he was not to finish the work, but left it to his son Christopher to thresh through the mountains and years of material: tales, and cosmologies, and calendars, numerous rewrites and lexicon changes... | | | The reason is that Sindarin was all but non-existent in Tolkien's mind until he began to work on LOTR; the Professor's first love was to write the Elven lore and construct the ages of history; to some extent he got side-tracked into LOTR after he published The Hobbit. |
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http://www.quicksilver899.com/Tolkien/Tolkien_Dictionary.html
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| | Random House Books The Silmarillion, Volume 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien, read by Martin Shaw |
| | The Silmarillion tells of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's World, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle Earth, and the High Elves made war upon them for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. | | | The Silmarillion, considered to be Tolkien's most important work, is the story of the creation of the world and the happenings of the First Age, clearly setting the stage for all his other works. | | | And an end was come for the Eldar of story and of song. |
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| | Lord of the Rings The Silmarillion |
| | The Silmarillion contains the historic background to the world of The Lord of the Rings, including the tale of Beren and Lúthien, and the history and downfall of Numenor, the original home of the Dunedain. | | | A series of compact and elegaic episodes tells the story of the creation of Arda, the coming of Elves and Men to Middle-earth, and their war with the Great Enemy to save the early world from destruction. | | | This site is maintained and updated by fans of The Lord of the Rings, and is in no way affiliated with Tolkien Enterprises or the Tolkien Estate. |
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http://www.lordotrings.com/books/silmarillion.asp
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| | Amazon.com: Tolkien & the Silmarillion: Books |
| | It is a good source of information, and a charming book in its own right. | | | This book probably had a short publication life, mainly because it was published in 1976, and The Silmarillion was published in 1977. | | | This was mainly cashing in on the anticipation of The Silmarillion. |
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| | camwyn: And now the ENTIRE THING. |
| | Yes, folks, after yesterday's Quenta Silmarillion in 350 Words or Less, I went on to do the rest of the damn book. | | | And people say the Silmarillion is hard to understand...pssh. | | | I hurt myself laughing on this and forever more will not be able to look at a Simaril as anything less or more than 'Ooh! |
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| | Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Favorite story from The Silmarillion? |
| | The Ainulindale (not actually part of the "Silmarillion" proper, but its a section within the volume, so it counts) | | | The section on the fall of Gondolin would have been incredible, if Tolkien had written about it in any detail. | | | Not only is the story of Turin the best section of "The Silmarillion" it might be the best thing that Tolkien ever wrote. |
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| | The Silmarillion |
| | I have recently decided to re-read The Silmarillion after only having made it through about half of the book on my first attempt. | | | My purpose in this post is to tell all of those who may be interested in joining what my intention of creating this community is. | | | I am an avid Lord of the Rings and Tolkien fan, and I enjoy discussing anything that has to do with either. |
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| | Chronology of the Silmarillion |
| | The Moon rose after 5000 Valian years had passed which equals 47900 Sun years (using 9.58) | | | A Chronology of The Silmarillion has to take into account the following stages of time that occur: | | | The Time leading up to the creation of the two Trees Telperion and Laurelin and their regular waxing and waning in Aman. |
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| | Neverwinter Nights: The Silmarillion |
| | Wow, that would be an Epic PW indeed!!! | | | Im almost finished reading it and I love it and was wondering if there are any Silmarillion based persistant worlds to play | | | Do a search of the Vault and here, to find out. |
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| | FINI "Thou hast dared to mock MELkor, Master of the Fates of Arda!" ('S'good ta be da king!) | | | THE SILMARILLION to the tune of THE INQUISITION from Mel Brooks's HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I (as sung by Morgoth and the host of Angband) Friday, November 26, 1999 by William H. Hsu MORGOTH: The Silmarillion, let's begin! | | | GANDALF, ELROND, CIRDAN, various Numenorean and Easterling lords, and seven dwarf kings sprint to the edge of the pool and dive in. |
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| | Bibliography: The Silmarillion |
| | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | | | 1978 - The Silmarillion Locus Poll Award, Best Fantasy Novel (Place: 1) | | | The Silmarillion (1995, Ballantine Del Rey, 0345325818, $5.95, 458pp, pb) Cover: Darrell K. Sweet |
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| | War of the Ring Community - View Profile: The Silmarillion |
| | Copyrights for the Film "The Lord of the Rings" owned by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Copyrights and trademarks for the books, articles and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners and their use is allowed under the fair use clause of the Copyright Law. | | | War of the Ring Community - View Profile: The Silmarillion | | | The Silmarillion is not a member of any public groups |
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| | Entmoot - The Silmarillion |
| | An in depth research and discussion project for the Silmarillion |
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| | The Silmarillion |
| | Started By The Silmarillion is moving up in best seller lists! |
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